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May 20, 2026 36 min

Pool Water Pale Ale

from Craft Beer Republic

Welcome back, craft beer people. Flex gets bullied by a cookie butter beer that smells like cookies and drinks like regret, Ryan sends in a pale ale that tastes like the YMCA, and Pilot Tom accidentally tells Dick Leinenkugel how mid his beer is. There’s also debate over whether Keystone Ice should’ve stayed dead, PBR catches stray bullets again, and Greg ends up defending 805 to a diehard Bud Light drinker. Beers We’re Drinking: Flex is drinking Speculoos Cookie Butter Beer from Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, a Trader Joe’s imperial dessert beer with serious consequences. Greg is drinking Me Again from Urban Roots Brewing, a clean West Coast IPA with Citra hops and a much better life outlook. Flex spends most of the episode trying to survive a Trader Joe’s cookie butter beer. Greg reads an email from a listener who got served a pale ale that tasted exactly like the YMCA pool. Pilot Tom checks in with a story about accidentally telling Dick Leinenkugel that his beer lineup is fine at best after he covered everyone’s tab. Greg follows that with his own story about tanking a job interview after admitting he hates country music before learning the entire job was editing country music shows. Meanwhile, Keystone Ice is coming back for reasons nobody understands, PBR gets roasted repeatedly, and Greg confirms wakeboarding still feels like getting hit by a car. Booze News: Crazy Mountain Beer Gets Clooney Money Keystone Light Apple Is Coming for Memorial Day Keystone Ice Returns to Hurt College Again Drunk Campground Chainsaw Guy Makes Camping Worse Follow your favorite beer podcast on the socials: Flex: Instagram: @flex_me_a_beer Craft Beer Republic: CraftBeerRepublic.com Instagram: @CraftBeerRepublic Facebook: CraftBeerRepublicPod Threads: CraftBeerRepublic Voicemail: (805) 538-2337 Follow & Subscribe: Apple Podcasts Spotify More links

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  1. 0:00 Batch 512: Pool Water Pale Ale
  2. 0:30 Flex's Beer-agra
  3. 0:44 @CraftBeerRepublic
  4. 0:54 Hi Thousand Oaks!
  5. 1:13 What is Flex Drinking?
  6. 1:57 Hardywood Park - Speculoos Cookie Butter Beer
  7. 3:46 Diet Coke is Better Than This Beer
  8. 4:16 Hardywood Park - Speculoos Cookie Butter Beer
  9. 5:04 It Tastes Like Bad
  10. 5:30 No Good Dead Goes Unpunished
  11. 6:18 Gurgle Was Completely Awful
  12. 9:28 Poopgate Continues
  13. 9:36 Swimming Pool Pale Ale
  14. 10:31 It Tastes Like the YMCA
  15. 11:25 [email protected]
  16. 11:36 Ground Control to Pilot Tom
  17. 12:43 Captain Tom & The Nice Dick
  18. 18:59 Bullpen Beer
  19. 19:14 Urban Roots - Me Again
  20. 22:24 Rough day on the links
  21. 22:45 Flex: Not Good at Golf...At All!
  22. 25:24 Not a Golf Show
  23. 26:52 Crazy Mountain Scores $15M Seed Round
  24. 27:33 Molson Coors Reveals Keystone Light Apple Cans
  25. 29:53 Is PBR the Worst?
  26. 32:18 Keystone Ice to Return
  27. 33:00 Drunk Man With Chainsaw Arrested At Campground
  28. 36:12 @CraftBeerRepublic (805) 538-BEER

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